Numbers Game

The Cougars had two adjacent Bernoulli trials last night.  Two possible and equal outcomes.  Would we be on the right side of the coin twice?

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The Tappers were our first equation to solve.

The Cougars came out of the box in the 1st inning with Forter, Danielsen and Martin each touching the pentagon, better known as home plate, courtesy of Lipsey and Otsuka singles.  Up 3-0.

The Tappers circled the bases once in the second inning and twice in the 3rd inning.  Tied 3-3.

In the 4th inning both Danielsen and Martin ran a right angle (well, really a left angle) around the squares thanks to an integral Bobis hit.  Up 5-3.

The Tappers expected value in the 4th and 5th was high, but Bobis and Flannery kept them to an absolute minimum with stellar defense (and kudos to Flannery for taking last week's blog to heart by wearing his Lululemon yoga pants on the field).  The Tappers only added a tally to their total.  Tied 5-5.

Late in the game, the Cougars couldn't hit to solve the quadratic equation.  Brennan's parabolas in the final innings mirrored the St. Louis arch.

In the bottom of the 6th, Yulish, not to be parabollically outdone by his pitcher, hit a rainbow and struck gold.

Yulish counted all 4 bases, which gave the Tappers 6 and that was greater than the Cougars 5.  Ballgame Tappers.

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With another game to play against the Brown Stars.  We took the advice of Joe D and played angry.  Regressed to the mean, if you will.

We had 13 Cougars at the game last night.  We were unlucky in the first game but we were not about to be divided.  It was prime time!

Attempting some symmetry from the first game, we scored 3 in the 1st inning with hits by Boomgaarden, Radtke, Martin and Lipsey. Up 3-0.

We let up one in the bottom of the frame.  Up 3-1.

In the 2nd inning McDonnell and Lipinski both singled and Hoglund knocked them in with a key hit.  Up 5-1.

We would not let them bisect our defense in the 2nd and 3rd innings.  Fortier went up and caught a wicked line shot.  Lipsey got down and caught a fly ball at his toes.  Bobis placed himself in front of every ball on the left side of the field.  Still 5-1.

We picked up two more in the 3rd with hits from Boomgaarden, Fortier and Danielsen.  Up 7-1.

We went scoreless in the 4th while our opponent gained one in the bottom of the inning.  Up 7-2.

The 5th inning had 3 more plate crossings with hits by Flannery, Hoglund, Boomgaarden, Radtke, Fortier and Martin.  Up 10-2.

In the 6th we picked up our final run because of hits by Otsuka, Lipinski and Flannery.  Up 11-2

The Drab Pentagrams scored 3 times in the 6th and 7th.  But 3 plus 2 only equals 5 which is less than 11.  Ballgame Cougars.

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The team then made a straight line over to the Melchiorre front porch for some pizza pie.  We each had 3.14 pieces.

Dave and Barb always put on a party that exponentially increases our happiness.

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Win or lose (or both), the Cougars always have an infinite amount of fun!